Contra Costa-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Williams, Jesse H. 1815 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JESSE H. WILLIAMS.—Born in Franklin county, Virginia, May 13,1815, where he was
educated and resided until he attained the age of twenty-four years; he then
moved to Clay county, Missouri, and there worked at the carpenters' trade four
years; he afterwards lived for six years in Platte county. In the month of
April, 1850, he crossed the plains, with ox-teams, to California, and arrived at
classic Hangtown (now Placerville) in September of that year. Here he engaged in
mining until 1852, when he returned to Missouri. In the Spring of 1854 we find
Mr. Williams once more bound for the Golden State, accompanied by his wife and
five children. Coming direct to Contra Costa county, he settled in Moraga
valley, in the month of November, 1854, where he has since resided on his farm
of one hundred and sixty acres. Married, in Platte county, Missouri, December
24,1844, Mary A. Netherton, a native of Tennessee, by whom he has had ten
children, only three surviving, viz.: Emily J. (now Mrs. Hunsaker), James H. and
Albert D.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.



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